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What does one truck have to gross every day before you make a dollar? Put in your real costs and find out, then see how far your current pace is from the profit you want.
The starting numbers are examples. Replace them with your own costs: every market and every crew is different.
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Price any job in 60 seconds from your crew time, truck cost and dump fees.
Open the tool →Starting outAdd up the real cash it takes to start, and how many jobs pay it back.
Open the tool →GrowingFind out if truck two pays for itself, and how much cash it eats first.
Open the tool →Enough to cover that day's crew, fuel and dump fees, plus its share of the monthly bills: truck payment, insurance, marketing, office costs and your own pay. Add up the monthly bills, divide by the days the truck works, then add what a day on the road costs. That number is what the truck has to clear after dump fees before you make anything. The calculator does the math with your numbers.
Break-even is the point where the money coming in equals the money going out. Below it, every day the truck runs costs you money. Above it, most of each extra job is profit, because the crew, the truck and the bills are already paid for.
Yes. If the business only breaks even when you work for free, it is not breaking even. Put in what you need to take home each month. Set it to zero if you want to see the business on its own.
In our experience, a staffed crew business that is run well nets about 20 to 30 percent. Higher numbers usually come from a small owner-operator who does the hauling himself. Your market, your crew and your overhead will move it, so set a target and check it every month.
Raise your average job price before you cut costs. A firm minimum charge and the right price on heavy and slow jobs move the number fast. After that, tighter routing gets more jobs out of the same paid day. Our Quote Calculator shows what each job should be priced at.
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